Philip Reeve Quotes

″‘I’m already a monster!’ she shrieked. ‘No, you’re not!’ Tom managed to heave himself to his knees. ‘You’re my friend!’ he shouted.”

“She wanted him to know that he was the best thing that had happened to her.”

“She smiled, pleased that she had met her half sister at last, and wondering if they were going to be friends.”

“Mr. Valentine would never do something like that! Katherine said he couldn’t even bring himself to shoot a wolf cub! You’re lying!”

“I ran out of the house and saw Valentine’s great black ship moored at the end of the garden with his men waiting. They came after me, but I escaped.”

“Life isn’t fair, Natsworthy.”

“He didn’t feel like a hero anymore--he just felt sorry for this poor, hideous girl, and guilty at being the one who had trapped her here.”

“It felt like a different Thomas that they were talking about, someone brave and strong who understood what had to be done, and felt no doubts.”

“I killed Grike, he thought. All right, so he was dead already, technically, but he was still a person. He had hopes and plans and dreams, and I put a stop to them all.”

“He knew at once that he had made a mistake. Old Chudleigh Pomeroy wasn’t bad as Guildsmen went, but he didn’t like being answered back by a mere Third Class Apprentice.”